I choked at a restaurant when I was like 10 once. No one there knew the Heimlich, blacked out, came to about 5 minutes later. I don't know who helped me, or how close I was to actually dying, but I got free ice cream. As a parting gift, I ruptured several blood vessels in my face and eyes. My eyes were literally bleeding and were blood red for about 2 weeks afterwards.

Didn't see the light, but had the out of body, watching myself from above sensation.

When I first moved to the US, I did not know how deep 10 feet was. I also did not know how to swim. Jump in, start thrashing around, get extremely tired and just accept my fate. Start swimming below the water and not holding my breath. It was actually extremely peaceful, even knowing that I was going to die. I then passed out and woke up on a stretcher. I tried to run away, but I passed out again. I woke up twice after that - once in the ambulance and once during surgery. I did get a teddy bear out of the whole experience, so it was probably worth it. And I still have the that teddy bear.

I was riding my bike to the school gym at 5:30 am. It was dark and the cross walk displayed the "do not walk" sign. I decided to keep riding having not seen anybody coming. I'm about 3/4th of the way on my bike through the cross walk when a red honda hatchback comes SPEEDING my way. I literally had no chance to make it across in time, and in my head, I distinctly remember thinking "so this is how its gonna end huh?" I was sure I was dead. The interesting thing is that I was completely and totally at peace with everything. The perception of time also slowed down to what felt like a slow motion pace. I wasn't scared. I wasn't nervous. I didn't panic. I had entirely accepted my fate, that I was to die by getting hit by a car on the way to the gym.

The car slowed down, with what seemed like plenty of time and space to spare. Usually when I take some stupid risk and get away with it, I end up feeling bad, or even relieved. This time, I felt nothing.

Had a toilet fall on me during a structure fire from a 2nd story. Took me out of training for awhile but if I was positioned just alil more under it, I would have taken me. Ive also been trampled by a angry heifer(cow). So far thats it.

I was in a big car accident years ago. Everything happened in slo-mo... the hood curling up, glass suspended in mid air, completely quiet oddly enough.

I had an OOB experience at the scene, I was trapped in the car and it was on fire. The power seat shorted and the carpet under my leg was lit up. I recall seeing a rescue worker cut the battery cable, would have been impossible to see from inside the car with the hood pushed up and the windshield broken.

At the ER, I had another OOB experience looking down at myself on the table with doctors and nurses all over. I saw that light at the tunnel thing and had no fear of death at that point. I had a tough recovery and was told that they didn't expect me to survive the first night. Funny that I was still remembering things from that time, years later. Some things were total revelations, things the ER staff said and flashes from the accident scene.